lol... well disreguard my other posts... a great corner that can't stay on the field is like a great receiver that can't catch balls.Prolly good news for seattle, now browner can reclaim his position. on the 53 man

A rookie 4th round contract can't be that much money. With the talent and skill he's flashed, I can see them bringing him back, since it probably looks like Trufant is done as well. With Lane and Maxwell growing, we can afford to give Thurmond a spot one more time with the chance that he'll finally stay healthy and play up to his potential.

I'm guessing he must have re-aggravated his injury this week. He was a last minute scratch for SF and I think he had some participation in practice that week, but he was OUT in practices this week. Either that or Pete liked what he saw from Lane/Maxwell and thought he had a better idea for Thurmond's roster spot than a gimpy backup CB- even a talented one. That plus, I don't think there is a position on the team that you don't want to lose speed more than CB- so the hamstring was a pretty big deal.

I have a feeling he will be back next year. Let him go through the offseason and get fully healed and rested. Im pretty sure all the leg injuries has thrown his entire lower body off balance. If Pete lets him rehab and get to full health, he will compete at training camp next year, and if he makes a spot and plays the entire season, he's good to go. If he starts to play a season and gets injured again, cut ties. He is too good to just cut.

I'm not entirely against a "three strikes your out" rule with Thurmond. After all, I was about to get out the giant hook from Stage Left just 20 months ago or so with Okung, and now here he is headed for Hawaii.

Don't forget this is a guy that has been injured since college. That is the main reason we were able to draft him low. There is a point that teams just move on and unless he is a 100% going into the next season I suspect he will be cut.

Yes, he's been glass for us, but the 'suck it up and take some Advil' comment is lame. Sean Springs blew a hole in his hammy when he tried that. Let him get healthy during the off-season then let him loose without an injury settlement. The team made the right move. I really doubt he was begging to go on IR.

Look, JSeahawks, I feel ya man. He's got talent. Nobody here argues that. What I argue is that I don't care how talented you are. If you are unable to stay healthy, and you show a history of being unable to stay healthy, you are not worth much to me.

Sorry my man but that is one aspect of the NFL paradigm that I have - and always will - buy into, hook, line and sinker.

If Steve Largent couldn't stay healthy I would want him off the team too.

Aros wrote:Look, JSeahawks, I feel ya man. He's got talent. Nobody here argues that. What I argue is that I don't care how talented you are. If you are unable to stay healthy, and you show a history of being unable to stay healthy, you are not worth much to me.

Sorry my man but that is one aspect of the NFL paradigm that I have - and always will - buy into, hook, line and sinker.

No need to apologize. He's my adopt-a-rookie from back in the day. I've sworn an oath to defend him. Plus, one day he'll be healthy and he'll either be great for the Seahawks, or we'll regret giving up on him.

I'd be more concerned if he was having the same injury over and over (See Greg Oden )but its been just bad luck things. A torn up knee. A broken leg. Then a pulled/torn muscle in his first game back. As soon as his luck turns, he'll be great. If he kept hurting the same knee then i'd be 100% in agreement that we should give up on him. But, not yet.

Aros wrote:Look, JSeahawks, I feel ya man. He's got talent. Nobody here argues that. What I argue is that I don't care how talented you are. If you are unable to stay healthy, and you show a history of being unable to stay healthy, you are not worth much to me.

Sorry my man but that is one aspect of the NFL paradigm that I have - and always will - buy into, hook, line and sinker.

No need to apologize. He's my adopt-a-rookie from back in the day. I've sworn an oath to defend him. Plus, one day he'll be healthy and he'll either be great for the Seahawks, or we'll regret giving up on him.

I'd be more concerned if he was having the same injury over and over (See Greg Oden )but its been just bad luck things. A torn up knee. A broken leg. Then a pulled/torn muscle in his first game back. As soon as his luck turns, he'll be great. If he kept hurting the same knee then i'd be 100% in agreement that we should give up on him. But, not yet.

The situation reminds a lot of Lofa's end here. The team simply has to move on and bring in someone to replace him. Look at is this way, we replaced Lofa's production pretty easily with Hawthorne and now we have a rookie who needs to have a good last game to have a better rookie season than Lofa's.

I'm going to channel my inner John Morgan for just a moment - common fans really suck sometimes.

First of all, Walter Thurmond HAS played an entire season for us. 2010. He participated in 14 games. He didn't start, but he was definitely one of the "defensive interns" Pete was developing, along with Kam Chancellor.

Second, I just recoil when physically healthy fans fold their arms, stick their noses in the air, and snidely proclaim what another person's physical problem is. What's the biggest risk YOU take for the Seahawks, getting punched in the stands by some drunk guy in the row below you? Of course it isn't our job to stay healthy, it's the players' job, but the grueling nature of football should induce some understanding from us. That perspective seems lacking sometimes. This is a guy's dream, he's worked hard to overcome it, and luck just hasn't been on his side. Yet we consider it our...birthright? as fans to bash a person when he isn't fully able to perform for us, as if our status as consumers shields us from having to include any other consideration, or gives us the right to vent our frustration by promoting the end of a person's career. It's all about us, like he's offended us somehow.

Third, Walter Thurmond is not draining this team by being unable to stay healthy. As someone else pointed out earlier, there are a myriad of players who have been languishing on the roster and taking up space without actually being a hindrance to anyone. I haven't heard anyone complaining about Jaye Howard's perpetual foot injury and demanding he be cut. Thurmond simply gets this treatment because he's more high-profile and thus higher on the "fan frustration scale", not because of some rock-solid philosophy where every individual on the 53-man roster should be ready to contribute at a moment's notice. No roster in the NFL is like that all the time.

Lastly, give the player some credit for his skill. PC has stuck with this guy through thick and thin, and that says something about his ability as a cornerback - the exact same thing that his play does. He's good. He's not being IR'ed because he's "unable to stay healthy" or some such ridiculous artifice on the level of judging a team's mental fortitude by studying four-second camera shots of the sideline bench. Nor should he be benched for that reason, not with his talent. He's being IR'ed because he might have genuine competition at the position of slot corner, and THAT makes him more replaceable. That's a good reason to put him aside. Until then, whom did you plan on replacing Thurmond? DeSean Shead?

A player struggles with his lifelong dream because of an uncooperative, agonizing leg and WE feel all inconvenienced as fans. Someone tried to defend this position by saying "I'd want Steve Largent gone if he struggled this much too", but he failed to mention how he'd feel if Largent got healthy immediately afterwards and went on to catch 100 touchdowns for a more patient team. If you think that sounds silly, think of Russell Okung.

/sermon

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MontanaHawk05 wrote:I'm going to channel my inner John Morgan for just a moment - common fans really suck sometimes.

First of all, Walter Thurmond HAS played an entire season for us. 2010. He participated in 14 games. He didn't start, but he was definitely one of the "defensive interns" Pete was developing, along with Kam Chancellor.

Second, I just recoil when physically healthy fans fold their arms, stick their noses in the air, and snidely proclaim what another person's physical problem is. What's the biggest risk YOU take for the Seahawks, getting punched in the stands by some drunk guy in the row below you? Of course it isn't our job to stay healthy, it's the players' job, but the grueling nature of football should induce some understanding from us. That perspective seems lacking sometimes. This is a guy's dream, he's worked hard to overcome it, and luck just hasn't been on his side. Yet we consider it our...birthright? as fans to bash a person when he isn't fully able to perform for us, as if our status as consumers shields us from having to include any other consideration, or gives us the right to vent our frustration by promoting the end of a person's career. It's all about us, like he's offended us somehow.

Third, Walter Thurmond is not draining this team by being unable to stay healthy. As someone else pointed out earlier, there are a myriad of players who have been languishing on the roster and taking up space without actually being a hindrance to anyone. I haven't heard anyone complaining about Jaye Howard's perpetual foot injury and demanding he be cut. Thurmond simply gets this treatment because he's more high-profile and thus higher on the "fan frustration scale", not because of some rock-solid philosophy where every individual on the 53-man roster should be ready to contribute at a moment's notice. No roster in the NFL is like that all the time.

Lastly, give the player some credit for his skill. PC has stuck with this guy through thick and thin, and that says something about his ability as a cornerback - the exact same thing that his play does. He's good. He's not being IR'ed because he's "unable to stay healthy" or some such ridiculous artifice on the level of judging a team's mental fortitude by studying four-second camera shots of the sideline bench. Nor should he be benched for that reason, not with his talent. He's being IR'ed because he might have genuine competition at the position of slot corner, and THAT makes him more replaceable. That's a good reason to put him aside. Until then, whom did you plan on replacing Thurmond? DeSean Shead?

A player struggles with his lifelong dream because of an uncooperative, agonizing leg and WE feel all inconvenienced as fans. Sheesh. Someone tried to defend this position by saying "I'd want Steve Largent gone if he struggled this much too", but he failed to mention how he'd feel if Largent got healthy immediately afterwards and went on to catch 100 touchdowns for a more patient team. If you think that sounds silly, think of Russell Okung.

/sermon

Your nice rant still doesn't hide the fact that if this guy doesn't learn to avoid injury he won't be on the team.

Teams will not wait year in and year out for a guy to fulfill his dream as you put it.

Why do you think tru is still on this team? Had thurmond showed the ability to stay healthy I am more than convinced Trufant is gone. Instead we have Trufant for the playoffs. How does that sound?

You can bet your sweet ass that Pete and Schnieder are prepping to move on from him. They obviously didn't want to jeopardize the team by holding a roster spot for him going into the playoffs. I am willing to bet that he would be ready in a week or so but with the way it goes with him they couldn't depend on him.

I guess it doesn't matter what happens to him if we learn to not depend on him. That's the worst thing for him as he will get passed by.

Aros wrote:Look, JSeahawks, I feel ya man. He's got talent. Nobody here argues that. What I argue is that I don't care how talented you are. If you are unable to stay healthy, and you show a history of being unable to stay healthy, you are not worth much to me.

Sorry my man but that is one aspect of the NFL paradigm that I have - and always will - buy into, hook, line and sinker.

No need to apologize. He's my adopt-a-rookie from back in the day. I've sworn an oath to defend him. Plus, one day he'll be healthy and he'll either be great for the Seahawks, or we'll regret giving up on him.

I'd be more concerned if he was having the same injury over and over (See Greg Oden )but its been just bad luck things. A torn up knee. A broken leg. Then a pulled/torn muscle in his first game back. As soon as his luck turns, he'll be great. If he kept hurting the same knee then i'd be 100% in agreement that we should give up on him. But, not yet.

The situation reminds a lot of Lofa's end here. The team simply has to move on and bring in someone to replace him. Look at is this way, we replaced Lofa's production pretty easily with Hawthorne and now we have a rookie who needs to have a good last game to have a better rookie season than Lofa's.

Well the extreme difference here is that Lofa was a former star for us with a large contract whose body had completely broken down.

Is there something wrong with having a high upside corner coming to compete in training camp who costs pennies?

He's been hurt twice for us! Twice!

Had a major leg break that can happen to pretty much anybody and then once he gets activated midseason he pulls a muscle badly. Which is hardly an indicator of future injuries. It's really not that surprising it occurred for a guy coming off the PUP, it's hard to be in perfect game shape and end up rushing it a bit.

Of course he had the bad knee injury in college, but he'd survived the first three years pretty well.

Two unrelated major injuries, and a bad muscle pull. None of these things are chronic. And you guys want to cut him instead of bringing him into camp to see if he'll avoid the injury bug and play well? I'm sure we really need that backend camp fodder who'll never see a NFL field instead.

Tech Worlds wrote:Your nice rant still doesn't hide the fact that if this guy doesn't learn to avoid injury he won't be on the team.

I have never understood the part where staying healthy is a skill to be learned. That just makes no sense to me. This is a run of bad luck, and bad luck is a variable that might clear up. Ergo it makes sense to keep him around until a replacement is found.

That replacement wasn't Tru, by the way. Tru is not the player he once was and certainly didn't play well from the slot.

Tech Worlds wrote:Your nice rant still doesn't hide the fact that if this guy doesn't learn to avoid injury he won't be on the team.

I have never understood the part where staying healthy is a skill to be learned. That just makes no sense to me. This is a run of bad luck, and bad luck is a variable that might clear up. Ergo it makes sense to keep him around until a replacement is found.

That replacement wasn't Tru, by the way. Tru is not the player he once was and certainly didn't play well from the slot.

Bad phasing on my part.... If he can't stay healthy he is gone. Some players can't stay healthy even though they have talent up the wazzu. Hopefully thurmond isn't one.

I stand behind my theory about tru. They cut him and brought him back cause they needed numbers at the corner position. Had thurmond been ready to roll all season and they had confidence he would stay that way I don't see any reason for tru to be on this team.

Now we get tru, and all his liabilities, for the playoffs. I am not thrilled about that. I would much rather have a healthy thurmond and I don't know why seeing as I can't remember what that looks like.

Tech Worlds wrote:Your nice rant still doesn't hide the fact that if this guy doesn't learn to avoid injury he won't be on the team.

I have never understood the part where staying healthy is a skill to be learned. That just makes no sense to me. This is a run of bad luck, and bad luck is a variable that might clear up. Ergo it makes sense to keep him around until a replacement is found.

You might call it "bad luck". However, there are players that are simply "injury prone".....and Walter is not the first!! There have been many players in the NFL who never seem to be able to return to their former capabilities after sustaining a major injury. All the talent in the world is useless if the player cannot be on the playing field. In this league, it's "What have you done for me lately?" From the fan's perspective....two years is a l-o-n-g time. For somebody 20 years old....that's 10% of their lifetime.....that's a very long time.

What is the probability of finding his "replacement" in Free Agency this winter? I'd guesstimate about a 10% chance of finding a player of similar skills.What is the probability of finding his replacement in the "Draft"? Maybe 20%...but it will usually take a year for him to maximize his skills.

Bottomline...there is no easy answer to finding a player with similar skills who would be ready come September 2013